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Archive for April 5, 2007
Tanker owners join call for ship switch to diesel
April 5, 2007 by Walter Schneider.
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
SINGAPORE: Oil tanker owners are urging the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to lay out a plan by next year for switching all ship engines to use diesel instead of dirty but cheap fuel oil, an industry group said on Wednesday.
As governments worldwide attempt to curb pollution by putting limits on sulphur, the shipping industry which contributes up to 7 percent of airborne sulphur emissions faces a potentially confusing array of disparate national regulations….(Full Story)
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Money Talks: Kazakhs Drop Chevron Tengiz Probe
April 5, 2007 by Walter Schneider.
Money Talks
The Moscow Times
Thursday, April 5, 2007. Issue 3630. Page 5.
Kazakhs Drop Chevron Tengiz Probe
Reuters
ASTANA, Kazakhstan — Kazakhstan’s Ecology Ministry said Wednesday that it had dropped claims against the Chevron-led firms operating a large oil field after the group pledged $300 million per year for environmental protection.
TengizChevroil, or TCO, produces one-fifth of the country’s oil output from the huge Tengiz oil field in western Kazakhstan but has periodically faced accusations from the government over its environmental record. (Full Story — requires subscription; more on Chevron Tengiz oil field)
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asia.yahoo.com
Wednesday April 4, 11:47 PM
Kazakh ecology ministry drops Chevron Tengiz probe
ASTANA, April 4 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan’s Ecology Ministry said on Wednesday it had dropped claims against the Chevron-led firms operating a large oilfield after the group pledged up to $300 million a year for environmental protection….
Iskakov said the ministry’s change of heart came after pledges of increased environmental spending from TCO.
“Our complaint is that for every tonne of oil that they produce they spend just 1.3 tenge (1 U.S. cent),” he said. (Full Story; more on Chevron Tengiz oil field)
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Toxic truth of secretive Siberian city
April 5, 2007 by Walter Schneider.
BBC News
…To blame are the clusters of huge chimneys at three smelting plants which surround Norilsk.
Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, the chimneys pump out a toxic cocktail of pollutants which the company responsible openly admits is mostly sulphur dioxide.
Once in the atmosphere this gas turns into acid rain….
According to figures provided by the company, the total amount of sulphur dioxide produced by all three plants is almost two million tons a year….(Full Story)
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